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Hooowowowowowowowwwwowwwwwww appropriate.

― Jenny, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

Have you people ever heard of a band called Midlake? I listened to them for the first time last night and I liked them a lot. But then I looked at their website and they seem like pretentious wankers with a really irritating following. But I'm just going to forget I ever saw that and go back to liking the band.

I *love* the song "Roscoe" by Midlake. It reminds me of Fleetwood Mac's "You Make Loving Fun." The rest of the album isn't as good, but if you like what you hear, it's probably worth hearing, and I can upload it if you like, JB. I know nothing about the band's personality or reputation.

― jaymc, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

We've got that one. Roscoe is the song that caught my attention, although other than a little guitar part similarity, maybe a little in the vocal quality, I don't hear the Fleetwood Mac comparison as much. I guess it sounds too moody to me.

Dammit, I just had the band that the song reminds me of and then I lost it.

― Jenny, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

They've gotten compared to Steely Dan, too, but I hear Fleetwood Mac way more. Like Stevie Nicks-era. "Rhiannon," "Dreams," etc.

― jaymc, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

Neil Young. I think I hear Neil Young, at least in the mournful quality of the music.

Yeeeaaaahhhh... I can hear Rhiannon/Dreams Stevie Nicks-twirling in a black cape Fleetwood Mac, definitely.

― Jenny, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny's prof sounds AWFUL.

― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yEZamZMvoM&NR=1 Alanis Mmoorrissettee plays an Abercrombie girl.

― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

This just in: RUSTED ROOT FUCKING SUCKS

― dan m, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

(apologies if you are a fan, but someone here is playing them on a little radio and it's like nails on chalkboard to me)

― dan m, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, welcome to the mid-to-late '90s.

― Laurel, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

I met Rusted Root at an outdoor hippy festival thing in... Pennsylvania? Maybe? Probably. I was trrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiippin my face off and probably just stared at them and then chased after something shiny.

― Jenny, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

I had a lot of friends in high school/college that were brought under their hippie tribal troubador spell. I didn't get it then and I don't get it now. Headphones = ON

― dan m, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

new office mate? jesus freak.

― chicago kevin, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

tom skilling says the forecast calls for schism.

― chicago kevin, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

Note: I am not a fan, although I do get a kick out of singing their one popular song because I like to imitate his loony warble.

xpost - OH NO KEVIN. Might a suggest an upside down cross forehead tattoo?

― Jenny, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

HEYAYYYYYYYYYYYYYOOHHHHHEEEYYYYYYOOOOOOOO

― dan m, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

Also I thought one of the songs off the first CrapYourPantsSayJeah album really sounded like Rusted Root and hated it instantly.

― dan m, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

you know I'm all for irreverence, but that 9/11 video is kind of not cool....

Thing is, I'm not even sure it's supposed to be irreverent! Like, there's an outside chance that someone thought it was a very touching song, and decided to up the ante with 9/11 footage.

― kenan, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

No way!

― KitCat, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

The 10-day forecast has a couple of light showers in it, but apart from that, a heapin' helpin' or awesome. See, now THIS is spring!

― kenan, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

It was beautiful yesterday.

― Jordan, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

http://content.ytmnd.com/content/4/d/8/4d85728d2a7465b38c27897c208d034a.gif

― dan m, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

omg

― Jordan, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

that is such a pre-9/11 gif

― kenan, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan, you're really underestimating people's capacity for rongness today.

― Jordan, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

BUT EVERYTHING CHANGED AND THAT GIF IS NO LONGER VALID. EVERYTHING CHANGED!

there's an outside chance that someone thought it was a very touching song

for instance, someone with a poor grasp of english

― kenan, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

Did Nick ever post that youtube link for the rapper? (or maybe I did)

― KitCat, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

Richard Daley just left me an automated message encouraging me to vote for Ted Matlak.

It seems like all the phone calls I get are pro-Matlak and all the flyers I get are anti-Matlak.

― Eazy, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

The ascendance of YouTube makes me a little sad, because whenever people post YouTube links here, it means I have to go fish out my headphones, plug them in, fiddle with the speaker jack until it finds the one sweet spot that will allow stereo and not just mono, then repeatedly peer over my shoulder in my peripheral vision to make sure my boss, or any other important person, isn't wandering by while I'm watching videos on the Internet. Too much hassle, so I usually don't bother.

― jaymc, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

Thing is, I'm not even sure it's supposed to be irreverent! Like, there's an outside chance that someone thought it was a very touching song, and decided to up the ante with 9/11 footage.

Well, then it's "not cool" for other reasons. It causes me to remember a 9/11 as a day when we as a nation lamented the objectification of boobalas.

― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

Yes. Just tell me which song is on the f'ing youtube so I don't actually have to watch it.

― n/a, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

Today is a dumb work day. I want to split early and go sleep in a hammock. I don't own a hammock or have anywhere to put one.

― n/a, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

Or you could just ignore all YouTube links, which is what I do. XXXP

― Laurel, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

You miss YouTube, you miss all the Alanis comedy.

― Eazy, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

Same here. I don't have sound at work, and youtube is choppy and crashes my computer at home.

― Jordan, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

The Alanis "My Humps" was on Pitchfork like two weeks ago. Sorry, duderz.

― n/a, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I still haven't seen it, but that's old news.

― jaymc, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/ww/news/2007/04/15/0416tax2.jpg

My Yahoo home page always has the stockiest of stock photography. "Can't Pay Your Taxes On Time?"

― Eazy, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

I watched a video from the new Feist album last night, and it looks like a fucking Gap commercial.

― jaymc, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

Nick's just grumpy because someone jerked off on his keyboard.

― Jordan, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

lol

― dan m, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

Did you read this long article about her in yesterday's NY Times, John?

― Eazy, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

Nick's just grumpy because someone jerked off on his keyboard.

-- Jordan, Monday, April 16, 2007 11:19 AM (9 minutes ago)

Also, BOTH toilets in the men's room are clogged.

― n/a, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

Coincidence?

― n/a, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

xxp Yep, saw that and the SFJ piece in the New Yorker. I streamed a few of her new songs on HypeMachine yesterday morning, and while nothing grabbed me as much as the best songs on Let It Die, I'm still looking forward to hearing the whole thing.

― jaymc, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

xpost i hope to hell so.

― kenan, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

i think i broke my ipod yesterday. im just looking at it on my desk and feeling sad...

― coco, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

Who are you and why do you have my login name?

― KitCat, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

hmmmmMMMM?

― KitCat, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

I'm hungry.

― KitCat, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

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